Clearly positioned as a book for our times, the array of writers here gives weight to Carty’s overarching idea that literature (and those who create it) exist outside borders, are (to reappropriate Theresa May’s infamous phrase) “citizens of everywhere” ... Some are very brief encounters (a page or so with JGBallard), others are longer ... Literary value....

The judges of the Turner prize have issued a challenge by awarding it to Charlotte Prodger this week ... There’s a bleak comedy at play in Naeem Mohaiemen’s film Tripoli Cancelled, in which a solitary man wanders through the ruins of an abandoned airport, like a character from JGBallard but with a suit that never crumples ... ....

The judges of the Turner prize have issued a challenge by awarding it to Charlotte Prodger this week ... There’s a bleak comedy at play in Naeem Mohaiemen’s film Tripoli Cancelled, in which a solitary man wanders through the ruins of an abandoned airport, like a character from JGBallard but with a suit that never crumples ... .......

When I met the late JGBallard for the first time, around 20 years ago in a Covent Garden restaurant, I found that he embodied everything I admired in his work ... When I met the late JGBallard for the first time, around 20 years ago in a Covent Garden restaurant, I found that he embodied everything I admired in his work....

One rainy evening in London, Rob Hann was sitting at home watching a TV programme about modern art in Texas... Usually a portrait photographer (his subjects range from DaftPunk and JGBallard to Chloë Sevigny), on the road, Hann turned his lens to the strange sights along the way ... “I couldn’t pass it without taking the picture,” he says ... .......

Fifteen have been suspended ... “That’s high ... .. ... ... The officer who wrote “go to battle” in the June 2017 Facebook exchange was JamesBallard, a corporal. In September 2013, Ballard had been one of three officers involved in the fatal shooting of a 27-year-old man armed with a handgun ... Mayer, Ballard and Neese did not respond to interview requests ... ....

Fifteen have been suspended ... “That’s high ... .. ... ... The officer who wrote “go to battle” in the June 2017 Facebook exchange was JamesBallard, a corporal. In September 2013, Ballard had been one of three officers involved in the fatal shooting of a 27-year-old man armed with a handgun ... Mayer, Ballard and Neese did not respond to interview requests ... ....

For patrol captain, Windbigler named BrentLong... The officer who wrote “go to battle” in the June 2017 Facebook exchange was JamesBallard, a corporal. In September 2013, Ballard had been one of three officers involved in the fatal shooting of a 27-year-old man armed with a handgun ... Mayer, Ballard and Neese did not respond to interview requests ... ....